2018 Land Rover Discovery — reported problems

CarFaultIQ holds 929 evidence records for the 2018 Land Rover Discovery, drawn from official sources and owner complaints.

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 56 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

  • Electrical system8 (14.3%)Official recall records for this system: 7, covering model years 2017–2021.
  • Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)8 (14.3%)Official recall records for this system: 6, covering model years 1995–2001.
  • Body & structure8 (14.3%)Official recall records for this system: 3, covering model years 1995–2020.
  • Engine7 (12.5%)Official recall records for this system: 9, covering model years 1999–2025.
  • Visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors)6 (10.7%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2021–2025.
  • Fuel system3 (5.4%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2017.

Other / uncategorized: 8 classifications (14.3%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

  • Owner complaints (1,045 records, model years 1995–2026) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, engine and brakes.
  • Safety recalls (79 records, model years 1995–2026) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, powertrain (transmission & drivetrain) and engine.
  • Transport Canada recalls (94 records, model years 1995–2026) are most frequently classified under: engine, powertrain (transmission & drivetrain) and brakes.
  • Manufacturer communications (6,642 records, model years 1995–2026) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, equipment & accessories and powertrain (transmission & drivetrain).

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

  • 20reports included a mileage
  • 27,310average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

  1. 1995 92 records for 1995
  2. 1996 117 records for 1996
  3. 1997 70 records for 1997
  4. 1998 45 records for 1998
  5. 1999 36 records for 1999
  6. 2000 41 records for 2000
  7. 2001 20 records for 2001
  8. 2002 24 records for 2002
  9. 2003 55 records for 2003
  10. 2004 34 records for 2004
  11. 2016 430 records for 2016
  12. 2017 909 records for 2017
  13. 2018 929 records for 2018
  14. 2019 640 records for 2019
  15. 2020 525 records for 2020
  16. 2021 483 records for 2021
  17. 2022 424 records for 2022
  18. 2023 350 records for 2023
  19. 2024 207 records for 2024
  20. 2025 124 records for 2025
  21. 2026 29 records for 2026

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

  • 2mention a crash

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

  • Safety recalls NHTSA 4
  • Manufacturer communications NHTSA 885
  • Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 3
  • Owner complaints NHTSA 37

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Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.

Symptoms and warning lights in these systems

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